Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 11

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• Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he asks quietly. He hears her breathing so close to his ear. 'Yes.' 'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.

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  Baby, Stupid, Sleep

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• Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.

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  Team, Plant, Yeah

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• I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said. Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked. 'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth. And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.

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  Night, Ice, Ideas

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• Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

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  Apology, Pride, Keys

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• Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.

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  Hatred, Maps, Body

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.482, Penguin UK

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• Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

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  Lonely, Dark, Night

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• Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from here. I had to sleep at the Santangelo penitentiary for pre-pubescent girls.

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  Girl, Sleep, Thinking

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• We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

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  Humility, Awkward, Looks

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.53, Penguin UK

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• No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

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  Dad, Hands, Mum

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• I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.

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  Lying, Smoking, Bed

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• I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.

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  Thinking, Personality, Care

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• Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

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  Thinking, People, Doe

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.167, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.’ ‘Let me tell you something, Olivier,’ she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, ‘this is my real world.

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  Real, Princess, Eye

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.575, Penguin UK

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• I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.

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  Block, Two, Buttons

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life.

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  Kindness, Cadets, Way

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• I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

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  Uncles, Laughing, Wish

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• I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

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  Voice, Hysteria, Empathy

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.177, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

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  Cousin, Powerful, Heart

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.465, Penguin UK

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• But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

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  Hands, Earth, Made

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.340, Penguin UK

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• For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.

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  Girl, Sadness, Eye

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

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  Morning, Enough, Frightened

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• My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you’ll sense there’s an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.

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  Senior, Girl, Mother

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.6, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry over and over again, and I figure somewhere down the track we'll work out the right way of doing this but I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being a part of him. Because being a part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

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  Letting Go, Hurt, Sorry

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• You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

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  Thinking, Foundation, Shakes

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.193, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.

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  Song, Lakes, Years

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